The post-conviction defender is authorized to appoint, employ, and establish, in the numbers as the post-conviction defender determines, full-time assistant post-conviction defenders, investigators, and other clerical and support personnel who shall be paid from funds appropriated for that purpose.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-30-208
Appointment of assistants and other staff — Method of payments
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Leslie v. State (2000)
Most recently applied in Leslie v. State (December 2000)
Acts 1995, ch. 510, § 1; T.C.A. § 40-30-308.
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